International Shipping: The Role of Sea Transport in the Global Economy

Contents
Abbreviations
List of Figures
Introduction
Part I: Transport by Sea
1: Agricultural and Forestry Products, Animals, Feedingstuffs
1.1 Cereals
1.1.1 Canadian Wheat from the Thunder Bay
1.1.2 Croatian-Built Self-dischargers for Canada
1.1.3 Grain Port Churchill
1.1.4 Standard Designs from Shanghai
1.1.5 Grain Transport in Handysize, Supramax and Panamax Carriers
1.1.6 Wheat from the Parana
1.1.7 Open Hatch Bulk Carriers
1.1.8 d’Amico’s Open Hatch Ships
1.1.9 Finnish Design for Chinese Builders
1.1.10 Ukrainian Grain for the World
1.1.11 German Wheat for South Africa
1.1.12 Wheat from Vancouver for Japan in Clean Holds
1.2 Fruit, Coffee and Cocoa
1.2.1 Bananas for St. Petersburg
1.2.2 Oranges from Durban
1.2.3 Organic Coffee from Honduras
1.2.4 Cocoa from Ghana
1.2.5 Antarctic Vegetables for the Mars Flight
1.3 Salt and Sugar
1.3.1 Fish Salt from Zarzis
1.3.2 Sugar for Toronto
1.3.3 Sugar for Bulgaria
1.4 Meat
1.4.1 Container Ship for 2100 Reefer Units
1.4.2 Meat from South America
1.4.3 60,000 m3 Cold Store on EMMA MÆRSK
1.5 Juices, Alcohol and Water
1.5.1 Concentrate from Santos
1.5.2 Alcohol for Bacardi Production
1.5.3 Aquavit Across the Line
1.5.4 Water for Kimolos
1.5.5 Bremen Malt for Izmir
1.6 Vegetable Oil
1.6.1 Palm Oil for German Biscuits
1.6.2 Ukrainian Sunflower Oil for Istanbul
1.7 Livestock and Live Fish
1.7.1 Australian Cattle for China
1.7.2 Australian Sheep for Arabia
1.7.3 Sheep from Tierra del Fuego
1.7.4 Salmon from Faroe Islands Fjords
1.8 Fish, Krill, Garnets, Whales
1.8.1 Saithe, Surimi, Fish Oil and Roe from the Bering Sea
1.8.2 Saithe from the North Atlantic
1.8.3 Fish from Iceland, the Faroes and Norway in Containers
1.8.4 New trawlers from Turkey and Norway
1.8.5 Freezer SÓLBERG for Iceland
1.8.6 Seahake from Saldanha
1.8.7 Mackerel for Cameroon
1.8.8 Frozen Fish from the Faroe Islands
1.8.9 Salmon Oil from Salthella
1.8.10 Tuna from the Mediterranean Sea
1.8.11 Krill from the Southern Ocean
1.8.12 Garnet from the North Sea
1.8.13 Garnets to Tangier and Back
1.8.14 Fishery Protection Vessels
1.8.15 Fishery Research Vessel from Romania
1.8.16 BRIGITTE BARDOT Against Whaling
1.8.17 Stunned Fish on SPES NOVA
1.9 Feedstuffs
1.9.1 Feed for Oldenburg Pigs
1.9.2 Soya for Sweden
1.9.3 Fish Feed Supply Vessel AQUA FJELL
1.10 Wood and Wood Products
1.10.1 Cross-Docking in Kotka
1.10.2 Eucalyptus Wood from Bahia
1.10.3 Finnish Paper for Lübeck
1.10.4 Sawn Timber from Wismar
1.10.5 Sawn Timber from Germany to Baltimore
1.10.6 Namura’s Log Carriers
1.10.7 Woodchip Carriers
1.10.8 American Pellets
1.10.9 Russian Timber for Oldenburg, Swedish Cellulose for Minden
1.10.10 Garage Type Forest Product Carrier SWIFT ARROW
1.10.11 Danish Pallet Carrier LYSVIK SEAWAYS
1.10.12 Christmas Trees for the Antarctic Station
1.11 Cotton on the Buriganga
2: Raw Materials
2.1 Ores and Metals
2.1.1 Iron Ore
2.1.1.1 Australian Iron Ore for China
2.1.1.2 Capesize Carriers at Port Hedland
2.1.1.3 Newcastlemax MADEIRA
2.1.1.4 Iron Ore from Ponta da Madeira
2.1.1.5 Brazilian Ore for Asia’s Steelmakers
2.1.1.6 400,000 dwt VLOC for Ore Transport
2.1.1.7 106,000 dwt Carrier from STX Dalian
2.1.1.8 81,400 dwt Panamaxes from Universal Shipbuilding
2.1.1.9 76,000 dwt Panamaxes from Hudong Zhonghua
2.1.1.10 LNG Burning VIIKKI in Quadrilateral Traffic
2.1.1.11 Iron Ore from Buchanan
2.1.1.12 Canadian Iron Ore for Salzgitter Via Panama
2.1.2 Canadian Copper Concentrate for Wilhelmsburg
2.1.3 Nickel Ore
2.1.3.1 Nickel Ore from New Caledonia
2.1.3.2 Nickel and Palladium from Siberia
2.1.4 Zinc Ore from Townsville
2.1.5 Bauxite
2.1.5.1 Bauxite from Kamsar
2.1.5.2 Bauxite for Grundartangi
2.1.5.3 Korean-Built Kamsarmax Carriers
2.1.5.4 Kamsarmax Carriers from Sanoyas
2.1.5.5 Hundreds of Standard Bulkers from China
2.1.6 Uranium Ore, Plutonium
2.1.6.1 Yellow Cake Via Walvis Bay
2.1.6.2 German Uranium Hexafluoride to Russia
2.1.6.3 Uranium Hexafluoride on the Largest Con Ro Ships
2.1.6.4 Plutonium to the United States
2.1.7 Black Ilmenite for White Colour
2.1.8 Lithium from the Uyuni Salt Desert
2.2 Coal
2.2.1 Borneo Coal for Ishikawa
2.2.2 Russian Coal from Ust-Luga and Murmansk
2.2.3 Canadian Coal Through the Northwest Passage
2.2.4 Coal from Tanjung Pemanciangan
2.3 Stones, Sand, Cement
2.3.1 Granite from Eide
2.3.2 Building Materials for Hamburg
2.3.3 Irish Coastal Vessel ARKLOW BRAVE
2.3.4 Building Sand from the Atlantic
2.3.5 Chinese-Built Cement Carriers CEMCOASTER and CEMCLIPPER
2.4 Diamonds from Namibian Waters
2.5 Fertilizer
2.5.1 German Potash for India, Urea from Egypt
2.5.2 Potassium Chloride for New Holland
2.5.3 Magnesium from Kymassi
2.5.4 Russian Calcium Dihydrogen Phosphate for Saint Brieuc
2.6 Crude Oil
2.6.1 Nigerian Oil for Come by Chance
2.6.2 Venezuelan Oil for China
2.6.3 Siberian Light for Wilhelmshaven
2.6.4 Russian Crude Oil for Rotterdam
2.6.5 North Sea Oil for Brunsbüttel
2.6.6 Crude Oil from the Shetlands
2.6.7 Oil Across the Caspian Sea
2.7 Gas
2.7.1 LNG
2.7.1.1 Brunei Gas for Japan and Korea
2.7.1.2 Siberian Gas from Sabetta
2.7.1.3 Methane for Yokohama
2.7.1.4 New Containment Technology on SAGA DAWN
2.7.2 LPG
2.7.2.1 LPG Tankers from Turnu-Severin
2.7.2.2 Ethylene from Le Havre
2.7.2.3 Ammonia for Antwerp
2.7.3 Hydrogen
2.8 Oil Products and Chemicals
2.8.1 Product Tankers from Kiel
2.8.2 Naphtenic Oil for Singapore
2.8.3 Bunker for the GLOVIS COURAGE
2.8.4 Mineral Oil in Kattwyk Harbour
2.8.5 Styrene for Wismar
2.8.6 Asphalt from Canadian Oil Sands
2.9 Pure Sulphur for Jorf Lasfar
2.10 OBO Carriers
3: Industrial Products
3.1 Steel Products
3.1.1 Steel Pipes for the New Kaiserhafen Quay
3.1.2 Steel for Kota Kinabalu
3.1.3 Geneva Handysize Bulkers in Steel Transport
3.1.4 LNG Tank for WES AMELIE
3.2 Vehicles
3.2.1 Scandinavian and Asian Dominance
3.2.2 8000 New Cars from Japan and Korea
3.2.3 Record Holder HÖEGH DELHI
3.2.4 More Capacity on Extended HÖEGH ASIA
3.2.5 New World Record Holder HÖEGH TARGET
3.2.6 Fiats from Civitaveccia to Veracruz
3.2.7 Mercedes Cars from Uusikaupunki
3.2.8 First Angled Stern Ramp on MADAME BUTTERFLY
3.2.9 Former Ro Ro Carriers under US Flag
3.2.10 Former Russian Tank Transporters
3.2.11 Vietnamese Premiere VICTORY LEADER
3.2.12 Jaguars from Immingham
3.2.13 Kias from Koper to Tarragona
3.2.14 Nissans from Sunderland
3.2.15 Buses for Havana
3.2.16 Double-Deck Coaches for Ashdod
3.2.17 Loss-Making Investments in Multipurpose Cargo Vessels
3.2.18 Auctioning VICTORIA
3.2.19 Hundreds of KG Insolvencies
3.2.20 Fresh Capital for Bankrupt Ship Investments
3.2.21 NATO Tanks from Norway
3.2.22 Ecolift INDUSTRIAL FAME Renamed ZEA FAME
3.2.23 Van Carriers on RIA
3.2.24 Oslo Airport Express from Portugal
3.3 Industrial Plants
3.3.1 Wind Power Plants
3.3.1.1 Towers from Shanghai, Blades for Mäntyluoto
3.3.1.2 Rotor Blades from Spain, Turbine Houses for Nordsee 1
3.3.1.3 Wings for the Largest Power Plant
3.3.1.4 Blades for Rostock
3.3.1.5 Jacket Foundations from Norway
3.3.1.6 Monopiles for Taiwan from Dillinger Hütte
3.3.1.7 Open Hatch Carrier POSIDANA in Wind Power Components Transport
3.3.1.8 Turbine Towers on TIAN FU
3.3.1.9 Aurich Wind Power Exports Under Wind Power
3.3.1.10 Futuristic Project Carrier NORDANA SEA
3.3.1.11 Diesel-Electrically Driven ABIS BILBAO
3.3.1.12 Indian-Built HAPPY SKY Lifts 2 × 900 Tonnes
3.3.2 Bauxite Cracker for Kamsar
3.3.3 Gas Turbines for Hamitabat
3.3.4 700-Tonne Lifting Capacity for Heavy Cargoes
3.3.5 Power Plant Components for Siberia
3.3.6 Shipyard Crane on the Hook
3.3.7 Piggyback Ships and Docks
3.3.7.1 SWATH Type Pilot Tenders for Houston
3.3.7.2 Four-Masted Barque PEKING from New York to Germany
3.3.7.3 Survey Vessel TAGU SUPPLIER to Jamaica
3.3.7.4 Tanker Newbuilding on Deck
3.3.7.5 Repair Dock on TRANSSHELF
3.3.7.6 Yachts on DEO VOLENTE and EEMSLIFT HENDRIKA
3.3.7.7 Fish Farm Serving Boat CLAYOQUOT SERVER for Canada
3.3.7.8 Airbus Transporter VILLE DE BORDEAUX
3.3.7.9 Ariane Transporters MN TOUCAN and MN COLIBRI
3.3.7.10 Zhen Hua’s Crane Carriers
3.4 Dangerous Goods
3.4.1 Chemicals for Japan
3.4.2 Ammunition for Nordenham
3.4.3 Former Soviet Ro Ro Carriers Under US Flag
3.5 Other Industrial Products
3.5.1 Sewage Sludge from the East Frisian Islands
3.5.2 Back from Russia
4: Container Transports
4.1 Europe: Far East Route
4.1.1 20,000 Teu Ships in Large Numbers
4.1.2 Nine Europe-Far East Services of the 2M Agreement
4.1.3 Quantum Leap by EMMA MÆRSK
4.1.4 Near Loss of EMMA MÆRSK
4.1.5 400-Meter Ships Only Conditionally Maneuvrable in a Storm
4.1.6 Maersk’s Triple-E Vessels
4.1.7 Eleven Europe-Far East Services of Ocean Alliance
4.1.8 Cascade Effect Displaces 8000 Teu Ships
4.1.9 Private and Public Capital
4.1.10 Similar 8000 Teu Types from Samsung, Daewoo and Hanjin
4.1.11 Eight Europe-Far East Services of THE Alliance
4.1.12 Direct Australia Services from Europe
4.2 North Atlantic Route
4.2.1 Colombian Bananas for Europe
4.2.2 Hapag-Lloyd with Asian Partners
4.2.3 Two Ocean Alliance Services
4.3 North-South Traffic
4.3.1 Along the American East Coasts
4.3.2 HANJIN COPENHAGEN in Tsunami
4.3.3 5500 Teu Carriers from Samsung
4.3.4 Wide-Beam Types for Vinnen
4.4 Feeder and Short-Sea Traffic
4.4.1 Collective Transporter Unifeeder’s
4.4.2 Open-Top Type from Meyer Werft
4.4.3 Chinese-Built Container Feeder Types
4.4.4 Maersk’s Ice-Class Feeders
5: Ferry Traffic
5.1 Freight Ferries
5.1.1 BORE SONG on Route to England
5.1.2 Lengthening of PRIMULA SEAWAYS
5.1.3 Odense’s FSG Variant PAQIZE from Istanbul to Trieste
5.1.4 Drilling Equipment from Finland to Galveston
5.2 Ro Pax Ferries
5.2.1 World’s Largest Combined Passenger and Car Ferries on the Finland Route
5.2.2 Superfast Ferries in Europe and Australia
5.2.3 SUPERSPEED I and SUPERSPEED II Across the Skagerrak
5.2.4 Toys from Hal Far
5.2.5 Battery-Powered Double-Ended Ferry GLOPPEFJORD
5.2.6 Electrically Driven Ferries AR VAG TREDAN and ELLEN
5.3 Railway Ferries
5.3.1 Swedish SKANE from Trelleborg to Rostock
5.3.2 Denmark’s PRINSESSE BENEDIKTE on Fugleflugtslinien
5.4 Combined Cargo and Passenger Carrying Ships
5.4.1 Black Pearls from Bora Bora
5.4.2 XIANG XUE LAN from China to Korea
5.5 High-Speed Ferries
5.5.1 LEONORA CHRISTINA in Bornholm Service
5.5.2 Unsuccessful SPIRIT OF ONTARIO 1
5.5.3 Italian Monohull Ferry SUPERSEACAT FOUR
5.5.4 Wavepiercer SICILIA JET from Incat
Part II: Work at Sea
6: Offshore Work
6.1 Pipe Layers SEVEN SEAS and SEVEN OCEANS
6.2 Diving Support Ship TOISA PEGASUS
6.3 Wind Farms Replacing Coal Mines
6.3.1 Installation Ship MPI DISCOVERY on Amrumbank
6.3.2 BRAVE TERN and BOLD TERN to Build Global Tech 1
6.3.3 AEOLUS in Dutch Gemini Park
6.3.4 Bridge-Building Crane SVANEN in Offshore Employment
6.3.5 Routes for Wind Energy Cables
6.3.6 Cables for the Walney Wind Farm
6.3.7 Nordenham Submarine Cable for Baltic II
6.3.8 Replacement Cable for Borwin 1
6.3.9 Converter Platform for Meerwind Ost
6.3.10 Working and Living in a Wind Farm
6.3.11 Ferries to Floating Hotels
6.3.12 Freight to Passenger Transporters
6.3.13 Hybrid Propulsion on GEO FOCUS
6.3.14 Crewboat GESA for Personnel Transfer from Helgoland
6.3.15 Fast Ship with Soft Bow
6.3.16 Olsen’s High-Speed Fleet
6.3.17 Waterjet Propulsion for High Speeds
6.4 Six WG COLUMBUS Type Seismic Vessels
6.4.1 Russian Gas Through the Black Sea
6.4.2 Higher Yield Through Stimulation
6.4.3 ISLAND CONSTRUCTOR in Oil Production Operations
6.4.4 German Oil from Mittelplate
6.4.5 Oil Production Vessel PETROJARL I
7: Dredging
7.1 Dredging in Bronka
7.2 Deployment to Port Harcourt
7.3 Dredging off Yuzhny
7.4 Belgian Cutter Head Dredger VESALIUS
7.5 Backhoe Dredger PETER THE GREAT
8: Salvage and Towage
8.1 Grounded with Dragging Anchors
8.2 Boskalis Tugs Operated Worldwide
8.3 Ten Tugs in Harriersand Salvage Action
8.4 From Tampa to Bremerhaven for Repair
8.5 Nine High-Sea Tugs for Harms from Mützelfeldt
8.6 Rapid Emergency Help for SPLITTNES
8.7 Five Floating Cranes Raise the SEKI ROLETTE Wreck
8.8 New Tug Designs and Techniques
8.9 Large ASD Tug Series from Damen
8.10 Bugsier Tugs from Fassmer Yard
8.11 The EDDY TUG Project
8.12 Innovative Carousel Tug MULTRATUG 32
9: Icebreaking
9.1 Russian Nuclear Icebreaker YAMAL
9.2 Diesel-Electrically Driven Ice Breaker MOSKVA
9.3 Icebreaking Offshore Vessels for Kazakhstan
9.4 Gas Turbine-Powered US Icebreaker POLAR SEA
9.5 Helicopter Transfer from Arctic Supply Vessel DP POLAR
9.6 Supplies for the Neumayr Station
Part III: Recreation, Travel and Rescue at Sea
10: Cruise Shipping
10.1 Caribbean, Alaska, Great Lakes, Hawaii
10.1.1 Hurricane Irma Destroying Cruise Destinations
10.1.2 From New York to Bermuda
10.1.3 Mickey Mouse on Caribbean Course
10.1.4 PEARL MIST on the Great Lakes
10.1.5 Celebrity Cruise Liners to Alaska and Hawaii
10.1.6 PRIDE OF AMERICA Built Under Special Permit
10.1.7 PRIDE OF HAWAI’I in Europe
10.2 Europe
10.2.1 Carnival’s European Subsidiaries Costa, Aida and P&O
10.2.2 COSTA VICTORIA on Mediterranean Routes
10.2.3 AIDAPRIMA Sailing from Las Palmas
10.2.4 Scrubber-Fitted MEIN SCHIFF 3, 4, 5, 6, 1, 2 and 7
10.2.5 Reservation for 90 British Pounds
10.2.6 EUROPA 2 on World Tours
10.2.7 Four QUEENs from France and Italy
10.2.8 NORWEGIAN SKY from Lloyd Werft
10.3 Asia
10.3.1 Jewels of Vietnam: From Hong Kong to Ho Chi Minh City
10.3.2 Genting’s GLOBAL DREAM from Wismar
10.3.3 China’s First Luxury Liner
10.3.4 From Shanghai and Hong Kong
10.4 Expedition Cruises
10.4.1 High Accidents Frequency
10.4.2 Yacht-Like LE BORÉAL
10.4.3 Hurtigruten Liner FRAM
10.4.4 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC EXPLORER
10.4.5 High-Class Luxury Vessels
10.5 Coastal Passenger Shipping
10.5.1 Senegalese ALINE SITOE DIATTA
10.5.2 LNG-Driven HELGOLAND
10.6 River Cruises
10.6.1 A-ROSA STELLA on River Rhône
10.6.2 Longship VIKING HERMOD from Avignon to Lyon
10.6.3 ROSSINI on the Danube
11: Luxury Yachts
11.1 AZZAM and TOPAZ for the Emirates
11.2 Possible Mission for the Saudi King
11.3 AL SAID for the Sultan of Oman
11.4 157-m Yacht DILBAR for Russia
11.5 AVIVA from Abeking & Rasmussen
11.6 LE GRAND BLEU, ECLIPSE, LUNA and SOLARIS for Abramovich
11.7 Kiel Stealth Yacht A for Russian Buyers
11.8 Expedition Yachts ULYSSES from Kleven Verft
12: Floating Hospitals and Rescue Vessels
12.1 Relief Missions in Africa and South America
12.2 Rescue Ship AQUARIUS of SOS Méditerrannée
Glossary
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